Re: firefox message is it an error or not

Frank Cox writes:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:52:22 -0400
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Someone probably already filed this, in Bugzilla.

Why would you consider this to be a bug? It's a feature -- if Firefox exits
for reasons other than that you closed it, it offers to restore the last
session.

I intentionally opened Fedora menu, then selected "logoff" or "shutdown". I did not crash, and no error condition, of any kind, has occured. It was a normal, ordinary logoff/shutdown.

I would certainly consider it a bug, if a normal, ordinary logout/shutdown procedure results in Firefox thinking that it actually crashed. Do you actually expect the user to go through and manually close each application, before going back to the Fedora menu, and logging off? Is this a reasonable expectation, or would you expect all running applications to gracefully terminate, when you instruct the desktop to log off, shut down, or reboot the computer?

I'm sure that this does not happen in Windows. Windows applications receive a message upon Windows shutdown, and the application has the opportunity to terminate gracefully. In fact, when you logout/shutdown in Windows, if an application ignores the windows termination message, windows will refuse to shut down until you explicitly/implicitly kill the app.

Apparently, there is no equivalent in X-Windows. When an X server terminates, it just tears down all client connections, apparently. From an application's point of view there may not actually be a way to detect if the X connection went away because of a server crash, or the user logging off.

Still, from the useability standpoint, this is a bug.

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